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KRISTIN! Thank you so much for sharing this with your people. Your preface was so very kind. I hope to meet you someday. I've been a fan since reading your book.

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Ryan, I am sorry you have a dad who may be hard to be proud of...Please be assured that he has a son of whom this father and a host of others would be proud.

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11 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Thanks for sharing this post. I have heard some of these defenses, from the evangelicals I know. Most recently, the “policies over personalities” defense has been most prominent. It’s just another way to make excuses for dismissing Trump’s moral failures. Pathetic.

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Yes, "policies over personality" is what I'm hearing most. To which I say, "which policies?!?"

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4 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Exactly! Tariffs? No more income tax? Using the military, against perceived enemies from within? Mass deportation camps? Disbanding the department of education?

To those in the “burn it all down” caucus, I ask, do you know what will replace it, and do you trust him to rebuild it? If you burn it all down, chaos ensues. He wants that, but we should not.

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Thank you so much for your writing! I'm WAY too late to the party, but finally reading Jesus and John Wayne. Joel Webbon's church is about 20 minutes away from my house. Last year, my husband's insurance agent invited us to visit it...I had never heard of him then, but when I read on the church's home page it invited anyone "looking for a biblical church with a spine" to visit, alarm bells went off.

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WOW. This is so well written and took so much time. Very thankful for Ryan putting the pieces together like this and bringing receipts!

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11 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Excellent!! I wish all voters would read it BEFORE they blindly vote Republican.... It, of course, is also terribly sad. How can we have gotten to this point in our American history? Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus....

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Thank you Kristin & Ryan. While watching "For Our Daughters" on the big screen this past Monday night, I realized how deeply I hold abuse against women in the church. After the film, while I sat in reflection, my partner asked me if I was alright... I think this stuff is hitting part of my being that is awakening me to being an advocate in new ways.

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10 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

This is actually the very church that the settlers "brought" to the "new world". Ask any Native American survivor of boarding schools or their descendants. So, the 35 tiles on the Roys Report page are just the ones who have been caught or exposed. I so appreciated Ryan's statement "If you’re shocked by statements like these from faith leaders, I’m jealous." for I can remember what it was before knowledge like that came into my life. But maybe that is a natural step in our maturing in our faith. An ever increasing intense light into the unconscious aspects of what we were surrounded by as a babe in Christ. Again, I'm so thankful for J&JW and your work, Kristin. Time to start my 5th reading as my copy is still in pretty good shape!

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11 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Such a truthfully well written article. It validated my not voting for Trump. Thank you for sharing this post.

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11 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

This is so good! Ryan is a gifted and well-researched writer. 100%!!

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8 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

The problem with voting for Jo Jorgensen in 2020 was that any vote not cast for Biden was, for all practical purposes, a vote for Trump. That is still the same in this 2024 election. I hope voters who don’t want Trump in the White House will remember that and vote accordingly. Thank-you for excellent writing…with all my heart.

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I'm voting for Harriz/Walz. I didn't put that in the original piece.

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7 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Thank-you so much for letting me know this!

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9 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Excellent! Thank you for sharing this! I want to shout this from the mountain top! "America, please wake up!"

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Excellent throughout. A huge service to us. My only point of departure is to urge votes against Trump via votes for Harris.

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That's where my courage ran out. I am voting for Harris/WAlz.

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6 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Excellent.

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thanks for sharing this

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*Standing Ovation* THANK YOU

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9 hrs agoLiked by Kristin Du Mez

Thank you so much for sharing this!

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